KKR has led a $68 million Series B funding round in Advanced Navigation, a developer of AI robotics and navigation technology. The funding round includes participation from new investors such as deep learning venture firm AI Capital and existing investors, including Main Sequence.

San Francisco Equity Partners, a private equity firm focused exclusively on partnering with lower middle market companies across the consumer value chain, has acquired DGS Retail, a provider of décor, signage, fixtures, displays and other critical products to customers in the grocery, retail, foodservice and consumer brand end markets. 

Ara Partners has acquired a majority ownership interest in Lincoln Terminal Holdings (Lincoln), a renewable fuel logistics and infrastructure provider in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic United States. 

Momentum Manufacturing Group (MMG), a North American metal manufacturing services provider and portfolio company of One Equity Partners, has acquired two precision machining services providers Evans Industries Inc (Evans) and Little Enterprises, (Little). Terms of the private transactions have not been disclosed. Founded in 1965Evans produces mission-critical components for the

HIG Capital, a global private equity investment firm with $52 billion of equity capital under management, has acquired a majority stake in Onis Visa, a European operator in the design, assembly and sale of generating sets and motor pumps.  The investment of HIG will be in partnership with the Barro

Integrum, an investment firm focused on partnering with technology-enabled services companies, has completed the sale of MerchantE, an end-to-end payments and commerce platform, to Opn, the one-stop payments solutions company from Japan and Southeast Asia. According to sources the sale price is $375 million.   MerchantE serves the complex needs

Becketts Bidco a consortium comprising Luxembourg-based private equity firm Astorg Asset Management and London-based private equity firm Epiris LLP, has secured all necessary regulatory approvals for its £1.6 billion acquisition of Euromoney Institutional Investor, according to a report by PE Insights.

Partners Group has acquired hyperscale data centre platform EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure for $1.2 billion, the latest deal in a raft of data centre acquisitions by private equity groups, according to a report by PE Insights. KKR purchased CyrusOne last year for $15 billion, while  DigitalBridge partnered with IFM to buy